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Auction 27 · Lot 103

Juris Hebraeorum Leges CCLXI

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
$700

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author

HOTTINGER, JOHANN HEINRICH.

printer

Joh. Jacob Bodmer

Place

Zürich

Publication

1655

Description

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew and Latin text

references

Freimann 140; Fuerst I, 414

summary

Hottinger (1620-67), a Swiss Protestant theologian and Hebraist, was one of the founders of modern Oriental linguistics and Bible exegesis. (See EJ VIII, col. 1047). The present work examines the 261 precepts that are expounded upon in the Sepher HaChinuch
pp. (8),401,(14). Browned and stained. Contemporary vellum. Sm. 4to
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